Jacked in.
We arrived at the Westin LAX, woooo! That was a pretty easy trip, but hey, I didn’t have to drive. Thanks Matt, you are a trooper! Right now were relaxing in the bedroom and I am finally getting around to installing PC-BSD on Matt’s Lenovo. We want to demo Alpha 2 of PC-BSD 7.1 Galileo at tonight’s BoF – but we may end up demoing 7.0.2 and 7.1-Alpha-1 instead.
Thankfully, the Invincibook (from iXsystems) lives up to its name after surviving the fall from Matt’s luggage to the pavement in the Westin Hotel parking garage. No worries though! PC-BSD booted right up, yay!
Update: I would have installed the latest PC-BSD release on the Lenovo but Matt left the external DVD drive at home. Not a big deal, we have an Alpha on the Invincibook and we’ll have Alpha 2 by tomorrow afternoon.
Also, the PC-BSD USB Keychain installer I have failed me. I’m not sure if I wiped it or if I’m too hard on my keychain. FFS!
We’ve been in the room for about an hour now, I’m ready to eat and be merry.
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James T. Nixon III
Lol, I know right!?
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Matt Olander
Great pix, James! Haha, that’s ironic that ISC, a customer of iX, won the server! PERFECT
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alan
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Shaul
I would have to completely disagree with what you say how good PC-BSD is. And for the record, I do not use Linux, I do not have Linux installed on any systems. With the code they develop on top of FreeBSD for PC-BSD has consistency issue, and just don’t think they pay close enough attention to code correctness, I think it gets sluggish. Although my first choice is always to use OpenBSD on everything, I have set up FreeBSD as a desktop system. All I do is select minimal install, populate ports and source, patch the system, compile KDE4 from ports, and I find everything runs better and quicker that way. Once Firefox has been compiled from ports, I have seen it load instantaneously when you select it from KMenu. With PCBSD being developed for people who don’t know any tech stuff, and their own lack of proper auditing of code in the manner of say OpenBSD, I see definite performance issues, and some speed issues. I think it just gets bogged down. So that is why I would definitely disagree with what you say about how good PC-BSD is.